Term projects - ideas. Claim them, or add your own.

1. A field program overview

   1. Choose a field campaign from recent years. Look up the main published articles (BAMS, and technical journals). Prepare a nice class-length presentation of the main results and claims from that literature. Now, give it context: use the JOSS field catalogs to prepare summaries of the whole weather of the campaign, and how the published onbservations fit in. Are they typical? "golden cases"? Are there other cases that should be looked at more?

2. Explaining the congestus cloud via parcel buoyancy

   1. Extension of HW1 -- what kind of boundary layer initial parcel sampling (top 5% of theta-e? top 1%?), and what kind of entrainment profile (maybe not uniform), and what kind of physical processes (delayed or suppressed freezing, i.e. supercooling?) does it take to get B to be positive in the lower troposphere, but go negative in the midtroposphere? This is not so easy, since the mean state instability or "shape pf the CAPE" ( B(z) for an undilute parcel) undergoes a big increase in the middle troposphere.

3. Mutual adjustment of stratification and mass flux (paper) -> David

   1. uses Raymond-Blyth convection model (a "stochastic mixing" treatment of cumulonimbus dynamics, based in our entropy inversion tools from HW1), coupled to the linear dynamics of stratified flow (treated as as vertical modes).
   2. all codes available in IDL, years old but could be revived

4. "Vertical mode" dynamics of the stratified atmosphere, and how it sculpts convection

   1. Want to help me publish this weird neat JASMINE case finally?
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